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Basics of Moderate Conscious CPT codes Moderate conscious sedation is a drug-induced depression of consciousness which is used for performing surgeries. With moderate conscious sedation the patient responds purposefully to verbal commands. Interventional radiology and open surgery procedures requires moderate conscious sedation. The old CPT codes for conscious sedation 99143, 99144, 99145 have been deleted. … Read more
In ICD 10, the injury codes are still creating lot of problems for medical coders. They are still not able to use and differentiate between the intial, subsequent and sequela ICD 10 codes. The use of 7th character for initial and subsequent encounter can be understood after coding some injury charts, but the use of … Read more
The American Medical Association (AMA) has announced an editorial update to its Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code set to include eight new codes for the bivalent COVID-19 vaccine doses from Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) amended the emergency use authorizations for both Moderna’s and Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccines to authorize bivalent formulations to … Read more
There were separate codes for breast biopsy procedures along with guidance. We have to assign multiple codes for breast procedures earlier. However, from 2014 we have bundled CPT codes of breast biopsy with guidance. Breast biopsy CPT codes helps in coding the Interventional radiology procedures easily. We have individual code for breast biopsy with guidance. … Read more
Every year AMA (American Medical Assocaition) releases new updates for Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes. For this year 2020, again their will some new CPT codes, some codes will be deleted and some CPT codes will be revised. Their are total 394 codes have been changed of which 248 are new cpt codes, 75 codes … Read more
There are lot of changes in the new CPT codes that are added for 2019. The first and the major change is the deletion of FNA or fine needle aspiration code 10022. CPT code 10022 is deleted and replaced with CPT 10004 for each additional lesion. The new CPT codes 10005-10012 will be used in … Read more
Being a medical coder, I feel coding multiple ICD 10 codes is very complicated in diagnosis coding. Sequencing ICD 10 codes becomes very important when we are coding multiple diagnosis codes. Since we have very specific codes in ICD 10, the frequency of using multiple diagnosis codes has increased. Even in 2019, we will be … Read more
What is Medical Coding? In US healthcare, the process of paying money to physician is done through a RCM (Revenue cycle Management) cycle. In US, the patient don’t pay money directly to physician. The doctors receive their money through Insurance companies which are also called payer. Now, here the total procedure is filed in a … Read more
Cpt Code for catheter placement: Central & Peripheral catheter The central venous catheters are placed for providing medication and nutrients directly into the blood stream. Also central line placement helps in the avoiding continuous injection and also helps in the removing blood if needed for any tests. In medical coding, we have separate list for … Read more
Medicare pays for a limited number of Part B services furnished by a physician or practitioner to an eligible beneficiary via a telecommunications system. For eligible telehealth services, the use of a telecommunications system substitutes for an in-person encounter. List of Medicare Telehealth Services CPT codes HCPCS codes G0425–G0427 – Telehealth consultations, emergency department or initial inpatient HCPCS codes G0406–G0408 – Follow-up inpatient … Read more